Anonymous wrote:I'm giving us a 30 percent chance of having in-person school this year. School board will use loopholes in the VA law to go back to virtual, which won't even happen until maybe Oct. because they'll have to set it all up again and that'll take another month or so.

I hope I'm wrong, but I'm getting a very bad feeling about this and have no faith at all anymore in FCPS administration.

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Anonymous wrote:Baton Rouge children's hospital nears capacity, braces for surge in Covid cases ahead of the school year.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/30/us/baton-rouge-childrens-hospital-surge/index.html

As Outbreaks Force Schools To Go All-Virtual, Districts Reinstate Mask Mandates

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/14272/as-outbreaks-force-schools-to-go-all-virtual-districts-reinstate-mask-mandates/

Baton Rouge has a vaccination rate of about 42%.

Vaccination rate doesn't matter for young kids as none can be vaccinated.

Anonymous wrote:Learn Science people

The Delta is a variant given numbers rising we are now allowing a new variant to create. Oh boy now we will have something that is worse and vaccine-resistant.

Thanks, Trumpers, GQP, GOP, Pastor Greg Locke supporters.

The religious war will not end well. That's what this is people.

Anonymous wrote:Learn Science people

The Delta is a variant given numbers rising we are now allowing a new variant to create. Oh boy now we will have something that is worse and vaccine-resistant.

Thanks, Trumpers, GQP, GOP, Pastor Greg Locke supporters.

The religious war will not end well. That's what this is people.

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Anonymous wrote:Baton Rouge children's hospital nears capacity, braces for surge in Covid cases ahead of the school year.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/30/us/baton-rouge-childrens-hospital-surge/index.html

As Outbreaks Force Schools To Go All-Virtual, Districts Reinstate Mask Mandates

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/14272/as-outbreaks-force-schools-to-go-all-virtual-districts-reinstate-mask-mandates/

Baton Rouge has a vaccination rate of about 42%.

And? Fairfax county has a vaccination rate of 61.9% with one dose and 54.7 fully vaccinated.

Don't kid yourself that we are safe here

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Anonymous wrote:Baton Rouge children's hospital nears capacity, braces for surge in Covid cases ahead of the school year.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/30/us/baton-rouge-childrens-hospital-surge/index.html

As Outbreaks Force Schools To Go All-Virtual, Districts Reinstate Mask Mandates

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/14272/as-outbreaks-force-schools-to-go-all-virtual-districts-reinstate-mask-mandates/

Baton Rouge has a vaccination rate of about 42%.

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Anonymous wrote:Baton Rouge children's hospital nears capacity, braces for surge in Covid cases ahead of the school year.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/30/us/baton-rouge-childrens-hospital-surge/index.html

As Outbreaks Force Schools To Go All-Virtual, Districts Reinstate Mask Mandates

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/14272/as-outbreaks-force-schools-to-go-all-virtual-districts-reinstate-mask-mandates/

Baton Rouge has a vaccination rate of about 42%.

Vaccination rate doesn't matter for young kids as none can be vaccinated.

Anonymous wrote:I felt much more relaxed about returning to school towards the end of last year because i had been vaccinated and even though most of the kids had ill-fitting masks, I felt relatively safe.
Now, though, with this variant, it's a little bit alarming to think we are going back with no social distancing measures and unvaccinated kids who can't seem to wear their masks properly. I just finished teaching in the summer SOAR program and I've had kids sneeze on me, touch me, hug me, and pretty much get be less than a foot from me while their mask is below their nose.
That small fear in the back of my mind is starting to creep back in as the start of school approaches. I don't want a delay to school. I worked summer school to help the kids that I know i'll have this fall to catch up a bit. I don't want virtual as we just can't.
I do wish we had a better way of enforcing the masks or money to provide better masks for all students.

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Anonymous wrote:Baton Rouge children's hospital nears capacity, braces for surge in Covid cases ahead of the school year.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/30/us/baton-rouge-childrens-hospital-surge/index.html

As Outbreaks Force Schools To Go All-Virtual, Districts Reinstate Mask Mandates

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/14272/as-outbreaks-force-schools-to-go-all-virtual-districts-reinstate-mask-mandates/

Baton Rouge has a vaccination rate of about 42%.

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Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. I think they should require all staff and students to have a negative PCR 72 hours before school starts. I also think there should be weekly testing. Los Angeles is doing that and they are a lot larger. I think this would give hesitant parents some piece of mind.

You are talking about 200,000 tests a week/ close to 1 million a month. That isn’t reasonable.

My older kids SLAC did PCR testing. It picked up virtually no silent cases, and 0 silent outbreaks. And it only worked because you tested the second you hit campus, then 3 days later and quarantined until the second test was clear. So, for a total of a week. Then they had bubble, and all was well. You can’t bubble K12.

I haven’t seen any data showing surveillance testing outside of bubbles does anything to slow the spread.

The data on K-12 surveillance testing was that it was expensive and mostly false positives.

I believe the data on symptomatic rapid testing at school is better.

I'm a vaccinated teacher and I will quit before weekly testing occurs. Look, teaching is stressful enough. We're not adding extra stress and simply additional work on my end to it.

DP, but I too have been thinking the same. Children will be back to masked for most of the day, travel will slow, vaccinations will continue to increase.

Cloth masks are not effective against Delta

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/24/1020088162/experts-call-for-more-stringent-mask-requirements-as-delta-variant-spreads

SIMON: So what kind of mask would that be? Because a lot of people have gotten very used to using cloth masks or maybe surgical masks. Do they need to switch to something more like the N95?

STEIN: Well, those are the gold standard, and so are similar masks, like those KN95s. But Marr says cloth masks can still do the trick as long as they fit really well and they're made out of the right stuff.

MARR: Which means something that has a dedicated filter layer and that fits really well with no leaks.

STEIN: So it can't fit loosely, you know, leaving gaps on your cheeks or under your chin where the virus could sneak in, and it should pinch tight over your nose. And if you're wearing a cloth mask, it should have a layer made out of special filter material, not just regular cloth.

Why are we even bothering? Very few kids are wearing masks that would be effective at all.

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Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. I think they should require all staff and students to have a negative PCR 72 hours before school starts. I also think there should be weekly testing. Los Angeles is doing that and they are a lot larger. I think this would give hesitant parents some piece of mind.

You are talking about 200,000 tests a week/ close to 1 million a month. That isn’t reasonable.

My older kids SLAC did PCR testing. It picked up virtually no silent cases, and 0 silent outbreaks. And it only worked because you tested the second you hit campus, then 3 days later and quarantined until the second test was clear. So, for a total of a week. Then they had bubble, and all was well. You can’t bubble K12.

I haven’t seen any data showing surveillance testing outside of bubbles does anything to slow the spread.

The data on K-12 surveillance testing was that it was expensive and mostly false positives.

I believe the data on symptomatic rapid testing at school is better.

I'm a vaccinated teacher and I will quit before weekly testing occurs. Look, teaching is stressful enough. We're not adding extra stress and simply additional work on my end to it.

DP, but I too have been thinking the same. Children will be back to masked for most of the day, travel will slow, vaccinations will continue to increase.

Cloth masks are not effective against Delta

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/24/1020088162/experts-call-for-more-stringent-mask-requirements-as-delta-variant-spreads

SIMON: So what kind of mask would that be? Because a lot of people have gotten very used to using cloth masks or maybe surgical masks. Do they need to switch to something more like the N95?

STEIN: Well, those are the gold standard, and so are similar masks, like those KN95s. But Marr says cloth masks can still do the trick as long as they fit really well and they're made out of the right stuff.

MARR: Which means something that has a dedicated filter layer and that fits really well with no leaks.

STEIN: So it can't fit loosely, you know, leaving gaps on your cheeks or under your chin where the virus could sneak in, and it should pinch tight over your nose. And if you're wearing a cloth mask, it should have a layer made out of special filter material, not just regular cloth.